Frederick Hammersley: Studio Visit
Frederick Hammersley discusses his general thoughts on painting as well as the specifics and development of his practice
Painting & Color in the Hudson Valley
Joanne Mattera reports on the painting scene in the Husdon Valley with images of recent exhibitions of work by Louise Fishman and Brenda Goodman at John Davis Gallery in Hudson and Nancy Natale at Gallery at R&F, Kingston, as well as studio visits with Hudson Valley painters Nancy Azara and Darla Bjork.
Mughal Miniatures
Pecay photo blogs a beautiful selection if images from a "small, unnamed ~18th century album of pencil and watercolour sketches [from] the digitised collection at Bibliothèque nationale de France."
Judy Glantzman: In Studio
Judy Glantzman discusses her work and her idea of art as “the combination of a kind of a contrivance and a kind of truth – truth and contrivance simultaneously.”
Unexpected Encounter: Gerald Brockhurst
Thoughts on an unexpected encounter with a portrait by painter Gerald Leslie Brockhurst on view at Tate Britain. "You know when you have come across an interesting painting. It will make you stop and look twice. An interesting painting tends to hold your attention while making it difficult to arrive at any particular conclusion. First […]
Allison Schulnik: Studio Visit
Video interview and studio visit with painter/animator/sculptor Allison Schulnik. Schulnik discusses her work and the interplay between different disciplines: "I keep a lot of objects and the figurines and the taxidermy in the studio just because it inspires me in the work. I see them and they're awesome and I love them, so I get […]
Jochen Plogsties: Interview
Jonathan Beer interviews painter Jochen Plogsties about his work and development as an artist. Plogsties, whose practice includes appropriation and re-interpreting existing paintings, comments: "the more I want to make an accurate copy, the more I see my individuality. The closer I get, the farther away I feel. Before I started making this work, I […]
Claudia Chaseling: Play of Planes
Christina Kee reviews the exhibition Claudia Chaseling: Infiltration at SLAG Contemporary, Brooklyn, on view through August 30, 2012. Kee writes that Chaseling's "small but ambitious show consists of a video, a handful of canvasses and a large, vaguely squid-shaped wall painting that appears to be divulging, or perhaps digesting, a number of discrete miniature paintings […]
American Clarity
Altoon Sultan blogs about American paintings in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Sultan writes: "There is a strain in American painting that takes its essential character from the primitive, from a desire to grasp hold of things, to make them present and tangible. It's a reality that goes beyond the visual […]
Wu Guanzhong: Revolutionary Ink
Daniel Galas blogs about the work of Wu Guanzhong, recently on view in the exhibition Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong at the Asia Society, New York. "What is so striking about Guanzhong's work is that it is so fresh, simple, modern, and ancient. It is amazing how he has transformed traditional Asian art […]
Ryan Coleman: Interview
Victoria Webb interviews painter Ryan Coleman about his work and process. Discussing influences Coleman remarks: "I tend to lean toward abstraction and obscuring the subject matter or imagery into something which contains a shroud of mystery. I’m drawn to work that has a bit of this mystery in it, and one artist in particular who […]
Moroni’s Modernity
John Yau explores the portraits of Giovanni Battista Moroni on view in the exhibition Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: Northern Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrarra, Bergamo at the Metropolitan Museum, on view through September 3, 2012. "What is striking about Moroni’s portraits is that he seems never to have retreated into a style, never flattered […]
Vuillard: Remembrance of Things Past
Piri Halasz reviews the exhibition Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses at The Jewish Museum, New York, on view through September 23, 2012. Halasz writes: "In other paintings in this latter part of the show, one can see Vuillard's style evolving backwards, so to speak, from post-impressionism to something more like impressionism. Still, he […]
Altoon Sultan: Studio Visit
Craig Stockwell visits the Vermont studio of painter and blogger Altoon Sultan. Stockwell writes that Sultan "has moved into a rich, connected and powerfully self-directed engagement in a wide field of artistic endeavor and questioning. She is living art rather than simply going to the studio… At present there are several different projects going on, […]
Michael Bevilacqua: An Ideal For Living
Review of the exhibition Michael Bevilacqua: An Ideal For Living at Gering & López Gallery, New York, on view through August 24, 2012. "The tension between [the] two readings of linear narrative and archaeological accretion is what makes the 'spatiality' in Bevilacqua's painting at least potentially 'eerie': unsettling yet intriguing, and suggestive that something might […]
Josef Albers @ The Morgan
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library, New York, on view through October 14, 2012. Naves writes: "The majority of Josef Albers in America is dedicated to informal studies on paper. Covered with scrawled notations, flurried applications of color and grease stains, they reveal Albers’s rigorous […]
Stephen Posen: Between Paint & Photography
Richard J. Goldstein looks at the recent work of Stephen Posen which merges painting and photography. Goldstein writes: "Access and memory are two words that come to mind when viewing Posen’s work. His initial question of communication in turn became one of recognition. How does the viewer comprehend recognizable space through added layers of concealment? […]
George Bellows at the National Gallery
Philip Koch blogs about the exhibition George Bellows at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., on view through October 8, 2012. Koch writes that "Bellows was a school mate of… Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent… at the New York School of Art. All three showed a marked influence from their teacher, the charismatic Robert […]
Mike Cockrill: Interview
Painter Mike Cockrill discusses his new work with James Kalm. Kalm notes that "After nearly forty years of working as a figurative painter, with a background of training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and battling notions of aesthetic good taste with his own weird version of 'bad painting,' the unexpected has happened. Cockrill has […]
Franklin Evans: Studio Visit
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of Franklin Evans. Evans discusses multiple elements of his art practice including abstract painting, trompe l'oeil, collage, and installation, and sound works. The video includes a sample of one of Evans' sound pieces playing while the camera pans the studio. Evans' exhibition eyesontheedge was recently on view […]